skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a moisture farm would be more profitable.
Reminds me of this from South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNEm6DWsU8
> The usual suspects are recursive qsort() implementations inside libc on Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.

Oh, I am mainly familiar with GNU C library. Wasn't aware others were shipping recursive qsort implementation, especially considering that a non recursive qsort is an undergrad level exercise.
Why QuickTime?
I wanted to understand why it doesn't work every time, but I don't want to install another plugin just for a single video.
Now, if only Android supported CalDAV and CardDAV synchronization (with your own server) instead of only offering Google account synchronization and Exchange synchronization...
what is "working hard" by the way ?....
I prefer working smarter :)
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Why does the line from 2010 (the book) come to mind when I see these email addresses?

europarl.europa.eu

"All these worlds are yours, save Europa. Attempt no landing there..."
Dear Apple, you need to fund this. For Steve.
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful…that's what matters to me."

http://www.indiegogo.com/icancervirus
Nothing really got simplified here. There's now twice as many steering columns, the rear hub became more complicated, and so did its dropout because now there's pedals there. We've lost gear ratios other than 1:1. And I didn't see braking of any sort.

It's basically a swing bike (fun, but taxing on the core muscles and not very stable at high speed) with the rear axle aft of the saddle (so I'm guessing it's a nutbuster).

Freakbikes are great, but this reeks of concept fluff.
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This must be the same group that made the first Cubestormer a couple of years ago. This one looks even more incredible.
A 27" gear from direct drive is utterly impractical. Direct drive is only 8mph at 100rpm. You go at a nice cruising/commuting speed of 20mph you'd need to spin out 250rpm. I can only maintain 200rpm for short bursts!

It needs something akin to a the Schlumpf "mountain drive" cranks (to lengthen the gears rather than shorten them) to give a gear up in to at leas the 60"-70" gear inches range that's more suitable for road use.
Well, if all you are doing is writing CRUD apps, I don't see how someone like OP is going to be even remotely a good fit. You need a mechanic, you hire a mechanic; you don't go looking for someone who can design a V engine.

Funny that you wrote that. I used to be a mechanic, and have modified my share of Porsche 911s. Have a couple that put out above 600 horsepower when measured at the wheels. Almost doubling their factory output. Designed turbocharger systems, intake manifolds (which was difficult due to me not previously knowing much about fluid dynamics , and such), intercoolers, stand alone fuel injection systems, and aerodynamics with composite materials (mostly fiberglass and carbon fiber). If you ask me right now about any of the subjects I would draw a blank. Why? Because I learned how to do something back then for a couple of projects, and then moved on. I did not need to know fluid dynamics for my day job fixing cars. Neither did I need to know much math. Just needed to know how to do the basics that the work required. Which were mostly things learned in the field.

Same with programming. I started out writing programs that solved a problem. Then continued with such an approach until hitting a wall due to lack of mathmatical knowledge. Learned whatever needed and moved on. Do I remmeber most of the math I've had to learn? Not really. I don't use it everyday. If I have to use it again, I'll just go to my reference material and refresh my memory.

Well, if all you are doing is writing CRUD apps, I don't see how someone like OP is going to be even remotely a good fit. You need a mechanic, you hire a mechanic; you don't go looking for someone who can design a V engine.

Problem is that all these tests do is promote the idea that real-world programming inside the matrix is about CS. Its not. Not knowing the answers to the tests created by the OP does not make anyone a bad programmer. Hell, the most productive programmer I know used to work with Visual Basic and Excell/Access all day long. His code served thousands of users and he shipped something out every week. When I asked him about big O notation his face drew a blank. But boy could he knock out software in a couple of days.
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OpenCL SDK support is provided. They also have a C/C++ compiler with OpenMP support.

edit: No OpenMP support.
Because that is the format my compact camera takes. Sorry.
Is there any advantage other than ideological to switching to using this if one already has Exchange sync set up and working for mail/cal/contacts?
As the majority of robotics research in the US is paid for by the military, I think there's more of a market for "fast computation on board" than you'd think. Communication and networking is expensive and hard. As a practicing roboticist, I'd love to work with a few of these. =)
That doesn't mean a hiring manager wants to hear that, which is at least one of the points of the article. I do believe he refers to that idea, at least indirectly.

Also note, just because one loves programming does not mean one enjoys repetitively writing the same code, over and over again. Note to mention the fact that duplicating code within a project (instead of creating "reusable pieces of code") creates design problems and maintainability issues.

I believe most good engineers ejoy employing an elegant solution, and focusing on the problem to be solved. They don;t enjoy solving the same old problem ("Gotta write another data access layer now, before I can build the fun part of the app . . ." as an example) over and over again by writing what amounts to boilerplate code.
would be nice to have a "none of the above" option for people who A) Do not use those languages or B) are not programmers who would like to help

Every project can do with documentation help etc.
Any specific reason why the Design Specs are hosted on Dropbox?
More links - have a feeling they're going to get there with this kind of momentum.

It provides an interesting possible alternative funding model to the patent driven one. Would be better if there was some breakdown of the costs involved though, and a few more endorsements from scientists of the approach.

https://twitter.com/iCancerVirus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/occams-corner/2012/oct/08/...

http://www.indiegogo.com/icancervirus <- the campaign page

http://www.netpatientfoundation.org/2012/10/icancer-campaign... <- with a link to a professor's view on this approach and others under development

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9581988/The-cancer-killer-...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/9544400/Would-I-takean-unt...

http://mashable.com/2012/10/05/steve-jobs-philanthropy/

Papers (from the Indiegogo page):

PAPER I
A novel chromogranin-A promoter-driven oncolytic adenovirus for midgut carcinoid therapy. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17438105>;
Leja J, Dzojic H, Gustafson E, Oberg K, Giandomenico V, Essand M.
Clin Cancer Res. 2007 Apr 15;13(8):2455-62.

PAPER II
Double-detargeted oncolytic adenovirus shows replication arrest in liver cells and retains neuroendocrine cell killing ability. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20111709>;
Leja J, Nilsson B, Yu D, Gustafson E, Akerström G, Oberg K, Giandomenico V, Essand M.

PAPER III
Adenovirus with hexon Tat-protein transduction domain modification exhibits increased therapeutic effect in experimental neuroblastoma and neuroendocrine tumors. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21957304>;
Yu D, Jin C, Leja J, Majdalani N, Nilsson B, Eriksson F, Essand M.
J Virol. 2011 Dec;85(24):13114-23. Epub 2011 Sep 28.

PAPER IV
Oncolytic adenovirus modified with somatostatin motifs for selective infection of neuroendocrine tumor cells. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490682>;
Leja J, Yu D, Nilsson B, Gedda L, Zieba A, Hakkarainen T, Åkerström G, Öberg K, Giandomenico V, Essand M.
Gene Ther. 2011 Nov;18(11):1052-62. doi: 10.1038/gt.2011.54. Epub 2011 Apr 14.
I'd pay for a faster version!

Especially it could be some kind of augmented reality app....
Good work, with one issue. I don't know if the author would like to address it, but if he would then I think he'd be able to capture more folks along the way.

The page assumes that they only need programmers. If you don't know any languages and are not interested in learning, you can help in other ways like on mozillazine and irc. Artwork, etc etc. It may be good to work through how the buttons/layout should work for this, but overall I think you'd get more involvement in that fashion.

Other than that, I think this is pretty neat. I may copy it.
Steve Jobs wasn't exactly known for philanthropy.
Smooth as butter and ahead of schedule. And all while losing an engine on the way up. So far they're setting a pretty damned good example.
OK, By your way...

Also people, 'list by popularity' will be good right?

Adding to that, I may want to ask, how much and where is it used commercially (leave out open source)
just tried it out: way more cool features than the old version, it's faster (and nicer). And I can connect my dropbox and GDrive. Well well done!
Most good engineers will have the solution designed before they start programming, whether on paper or in their head.

That's the fun part. Typing is an exercise best left for Mavis Beacon.
+1 - I recall reading that guy's commentary in rec.bicycles.racing:

http://luddo.freehostia.com/Climbs/Climbs5.htm
Honestly, this did not look simple to me.
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Ok, so that's 6.4 cores per mm^2 while Kepler has 4.8. Not bad, considering NVIDIA has already shrunk the scheduling ressources, register blocks and cache sizes per core to a bare minimum (something I don't agree with btw.).
For the last 40 years, C has been on a very short list of the most common programming languages on the market. It might not always have been at the top, but it has never been very far from the top since it was created. This means that the list of software written in C is simply too large to put here, or just about anywhere.

As for the future of C in an age where more tasks are being done in parallel, the C11 standard may give better information than I can.
http://trainenquiry.com/ already has same information in text/html format. This is just mapped to gui. Personally I prefer html format.
Do you mean "communicate"? The word "commune" exists too, but is not quite the same.
Excellent guideline, love what you guys are doing at BillGuard.
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Why only speak to Apple? Why not Bill Gates and his foundation. Why not the Swedish government.

OK, I see, that Steve Jobs died of this type of cancer. And it is his death-anniversary.

But why not show, that first of all, it was the "open source"-way of Prof Magnus Essand, that inspired the makers of this campaign?

I believe, that some people might be put off by the "Apple"-centric headline. Maybe something more inclusive might work better? Just my humble opinion.

But thanks for sharing non the less. Great idea and I really hope for this to be funded.
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Sounds pretty good, thanks for the heads up. Now I'm curious to see some benchmarks as soon as someone puts 20 or 30 of these on a board with lots of GDDR 3 Ram :).
I think any attempt at curing cancer is to be commended, but the fact that they open with this being "The Cancer that killed Steve Jobs" kinds of turns me off...

They name drop him at least 3 times, and it just seems like they're going off his name to help get their (completely admirable and entirely worthwhile) project funded.

The sad fact is, it will probably be more effective than any approach that doesn't leverage someones famous name.

Apple should fund it, however, because of how much of an impact Jobs had on their success and organization as a whole. Funding research to prevent other people from suffering like he did seems like a socially responsible thing to do, especially for a company with a war chest larger than some economies.
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Because it's running so slowly, can someone describe what it actually does and maybe mirror to an example? I think I can guess what it is but can't be sure because there is no explanation on the site.
This would fall under the category of " Watching your own ass "

... Did he not have a private jet on standby at all times in order to land his liver?
That is the worst. The "That's not my job" attitude is from people who are not team players and believe that they are above doing certain work, regardless if the work needs to be done. If you work in a problem solving profession, then you just can't have this attitude, because eventually someone is going to ask you to solve a problem outside your domain, and if you can't figure it out, then it doesn't get done or they get someone who will figure it out.

Although people bringing their stapler to the IT help desk is one of those times I might not be mad if the response was "That's not my job"
By "mapped live" I was hoping to see the trains move on the map. Even if it wasn't 100% accurate, it would dramatically boost the cool factor to see the trains animated along the tracks. Just an idea. I love what you've already built.
>Why only speak to Apple? Why not Bill Gates and his foundation. Why not the Swedish government.

Couldn't agree more. The focus on this being the "Jobs Cancer" is, in my opinion, a very narrow approach.

I do hope this gets funded, however. It's completely a worthwhile cause.
I see. Could you possibly upload to youtube or vimeo? I tried streaming using vlc and it's still too slow.
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I'm using them for the last two years, they are awesome, great job.
didn't run on my ubuntu, but pics look great!
Ah, Portland. Where the fixie just isn't hipster enough.
It's a tough world. (Though, I'm actually based in the old world.)
Some of that GPU die area is used for graphics features that compute programs don't need. But a lot of it is providing performance even though it's not providing FLOPS. GPUs have caches and multithreading for a reason; if you could get better performance with an ultra-simple architecture then ATI/Nvidia would have done that already.
Dynamic has been selling drive-shaft bicycles for a long time: http://www.dynamicbicycles.com/

This looks like it could be good to ride for fun, not so much for everyday transportation.

I'd be worried about the stability of such a short bicycle, and the speed of such small wheels and wide tires.
Yes, that's exactly what the objective of this book is! I am not using computation out of necessity, but rather because I think it provides leverage for understanding the concepts, and learning to (as you say) compose traditional models and build new ones.

As the book comes along, I am finding that many ideas that are hard to explain and understand mathematically can be very easy to express computationally, especially using discrete approximations to continuous distributions.

For example, I just posted a section on ABC

http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/html/thinkbayes008.h...

that (I think) really demonstrates the strength of this approach.

Of course, my premise only applies for people who are as comfortable with programming as with math, or more so.
The thing is to look at science as an antagonist to "pop culture" is a reductionist mindset. And would it be rather poetic as well as great market savvy for them to sponsor something like this?
Author here. I probably could have written 'I hate solving problems using technology' instead of 'I hate programming'. The point, as you noted, was that the challenge of solving problems with code never gets old. Rewriting repetitive code or just the simple task of typing certainly are not what great engineers enjoy.
> If I liked programming I wouldn't write functions

That's just reductive sniping for the sake of it. The word programming obviously implies a more abstract process than "filling up text files by typing".
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YouTube clip of a five-second solve here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0LfkIut2M

YouTube clip with some background from the designer and developer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHXTEBihbN8
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For iOS specifically, is there any benefit to using CardDAV vs Exchange sync?
73 degrees is standard road bike, 74 is NBD
Looks more like a 2 wheeled Unicycle, than a "simplified" bicycle.

"In geometry, there's nothing as strong as a triangle. Diamond-frame bikes consist basically of two triangles. The elegance and simplicity of this design is very hard to improve upon. Billions of diamond-frame bikes have been made from tubing for over a century, and during that time, hundreds of thousands of very smart people have spent billions of hours riding along and thinking about ways to fine-tune the performance of their bikes. The tubular diamond frame has been fine-tuned by an evolutionary process to the point where it is very close to perfection, given the basic design and materials. " - Sheldon Brown
Sometimes the 'solution' isn't technical, but process/training changes, or other human-level modifications, not code or tech. People don't always like to hear that, but understanding that may be an option on the table, and what the implications are, can help decision makers make better decisions.
Yeah I think this one is just semantics/being at least a bit politically aware.

"There is no solution" is for most shorthand for "I can give you 20 solutions, but I don't think any of them are good enough to be effective for this case. Would you like to hear the 3 best ones I've thought of?"

It's a bad kind of shorthand to use. Stating that "these are the best solutions I know of right now, and I've exhausted my current ideas" is better than saying there's no solution - it avoids it seeming like you're just not interested.

Everything has a best solution after all, even if that solution may not be good enough.
Site needs some UX work... http://i.imgur.com/Gm2jO.png
Is there some API documentation?
There was a post recently comparing that to "the carpets are just naturally clean all the time, so we laid off the cleaning staff".
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I completely agree that major sources of funding should be tapped for this. However being that the VISIONARY behind apple is no longer with us because of this very real and very specific cancer ... I mean is this not tailor-made??
I am coming around to the conclusion that this example is more trouble than it's worth. I think it's kind of fun, but it does seem to annoy people.

This kind of feedback is exactly why I like to post drafts early. Expect this example to magically disappear very soon :)
I think the author draws the wrong conclusion from the example of churn.

The company didn't want to implement the loyalty program unless it led to a reduction of 10%. After 5000 samples, the observed reduction was 8%. The probability that the true reduction is >= 10% is likely very small.
"There is no solution".
Well, sometimes you can prove it too.

"I’ve learned all I want/will ever need to know about X".
Often you don't need to know everything about X before you decide you don't want to be anywhere near X.

"I hate programming" (in X).
Lot's of times this stems from the frustration with the programming language/environment mismatch between X and the problem at hand.
Your mental gymnastics are ridiculous. Just evaluate that statement as a normal English sentence.
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An interesting thing that you mention the funding model... Apparently this is a modified virus which already exists WITHIN humans. And as the telegraph article states, it seems the concept is just too simple to work. However the scientific community seems to feel differently.
I think we are violently agreeing.
This fun. I'd forgotten how much of this stuff I used to know.

(ps, for Q3: if you know the formula for the Harmonic series then you can answer this one very easily. If you don't, you're probably going to be a bit stuck.)
I need to write a preface to answer this question, but the most important prereq is Python programming. The premise of the series is that if you can program (in any language) you can use that skill as leverage to learn about other topics.

So I would recommend

1. Think Python
2. Think Stats
3. Think Bayes
Hopefully the PR the bakery gets from this makes up for those losses.
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Would your view change if they paid you a contractor's rate?
They all have something to do with software development in specific situations. But the assertion is that this set of "exam papers" represent the canonical body of development knowledge and if you don't know the majority of answers off the top of your head you shouldn't be a developer, or at least should be grateful your ignorance has gone unnoticed. I find that assertion ... questionable.
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What music do you listen to while working?
Do you listen to music while working? If so, what keeps you motivated all day long? Personally I enjoy some heavy rock, makes me code faster!
Glad to see they were responsive. I like their work, and love that they've been doing a great job of addressing my actual needs (adding recurring billing, fixing the button nigh instantly)

A co-branded button might be a feature in the future, but that effort was a swing and a miss.
My experience is that when the problem is complex, the planned solution might still work, but there are often aspects I didn't think about that requires adapting the solution. So it's not just a matter of typing it up.

I think programming to a large extent is a learning experience, and you adapt the solution as you learn more trying to solve the problem. For me at least it is a lot more iterative than simply typing the solution.
So they effectively reinvented the boneshaker[1] while forgetting why the highwheelers evolved (you're not going to go very fast on this thing).

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneshaker_(bicycle)#section_...
There used to be a chap who commuted through central Edinburgh on a unicycle - over Dean Bridge through the New Town and up the Mound towards the Old Town.
Another year where the chemistry prize goes to biology...
I actually really like the idea of this type of site. More open source projects should have one. The entry point into getting a project that you want to help with can be a little tricky. On a personal note, this probably was the wrong time for me to see this site and want to help since the latest Firefox update this morning was a serious dud on my computer.
You are most likely correct in this. All geniuses I have briefly met are indeed nice. But usually this is a mask. Wait until you get to know them really well. Or read their bioagraphies. Oh, and I don not write this in negative way, no-no, I just have observed that that's the way it is.